OCTOBER

So October has come and gone, we went to the Philippines and that was very interesting experience (see the post below for the details) other than that we stayed around Ashikaga and hung out with friends and of course we showed the Japanese how to do Halloween.

After returning from the Philippines we went for dinner with one of my students, Tsugawa. He took us to a very nice tempura restaurant in Ashikaga and the food was great, but the wine was even better. Tsugawa always chooses great wines, I am so lucky as good wine is hard to find here. We had tempura shrimp, two kinds of mushrooms, squid, crab, onion, Denis and Tsugawa had raw squid and squid liver as an appetizer and fried shrimp legs as a crunchy treat...I ate unagi (eel) and it was not too bad.


And then there was Halloween, I made some sweet costumes. Denis was Mr. Incredible and I was Supergirl since we didn't want to scare the little kids too much we decided to be something fun and everybody loved it, especially our Japanese coworker, I am going to post the pictures on the other website, sarahanddenis.toadfire.com. So we had a Halloween party for all the preschool kids and about 80 people showed up, it was kind of a zoo but it was fun. And then we went to a friends apartment for an adult only Halloween party and that was a lot of fun, some of us had more fun than others (Denis :) It would seem that Japanese men like to dress up as women, there was a slutty one, a pregnant one, and a surfer one...it was great anyways.













That was about it, October was pretty quiet. But check out the pictures and send us an email we miss you all!